Haight-Ashbury

[heyt-ash-ber-ee, -buh-ree]

noun

1. a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.

Example Sentences

O’Neill also explains that psychiatrist Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West, who is known to have ties to the MKUltra project, was conducting research on brainwashing in the Haight-Ashbury area at that time.

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The Grateful Dead will be honored as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year, the Recording Academy announced Wednesday, 60 years after the groundbreaking jam band formed in 1965 and quickly became an avatar of the burgeoning counterculture based in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

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At a bar in the Haight-Ashbury — the neighborhood famous as the epicenter of Hippie counterculture — nearly 100 Republicans gathered to drink beer and root for Trump, including Jacob Spangler, president of the College Republicans at San Francisco State University.

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The free-form rock station KSAN, the voice of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, threw him off the air for interviewing workers who had been fired by one of the station’s sponsors.

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And like so many in the late 1960s, he had fetched up in the Haight-Ashbury district, drawn there by the alluring swirl of spiritual questing, political activism, experimental theater, free love and psychedelics.

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